2023-07-31 10:27:24
Salvatore Corsitto et Marlon Brando. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images, DAVID F. SMITH/Associated Press, Archives du 7e Art/Photo12 via AFP
THE INCREDIBLE SAGA OF THE GODFATHER (1/6) – The huge success of Coppola’s film, a sort of Italian-American King Lear, fascinated the bosses of the “crime syndicate”, to the point that they appropriated this name invented from scratch by the novelist Mario Puzo.
The novel written at the end of the 1960s by the Italian-American Mario Puzo to pay off his debts became a bestseller, then a planetary phenomenon thanks to the adaptation by Francis Coppola who made three anthology films. “The Godfather” illustrates the American dream and its dark side. Proof of its evocative power, it shakes up the environment it aims to tell: the formidable New York mafia.
The writer Mario Puzo does not lead far. Chicago boss John “Handsome” Roselli came to see him in New York in March 1972 after watching The Godfather , the Paramount film, co-written with Francis Ford Coppola, which has just been released in all theaters in the United States. Puzo, the little novelist from Manhattan, knows that Roselli is one of those bosses that it is better not to disappoint. But the mafioso absolutely wants to know who could have given him so many details about the secret life of Cosa Nostra. Never, when he has seen so many, has he been so…
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